Tuesday, March 31, 2009

How to Recover Deleted Items from any Outlook Folder

In Outlook versions prior to Outlook 2007, deleted item recovery is possible only from the deleted items folder. This means if you permently delete an email from your inbox, you wont be able to recover it - which is stupid! You will notice when you go to "Recover Deleted Items" it will be greyed out.

To enable it so a user can restore deleted items regardless which outlook folder they delete the email from perform the following steps:

1. Run regedit on client workstation and locate following hive2. HKLM---Software----Microsoft----Exchange-----Client-----Options3. Add a DWORD and name it DumpsterAlwaysOn4. Give the newly created DWORD a value of 15. If Outlook is running, close it and restart it.6. Set Outlook Client to open user’s mailbox7. Highlight inbox8. Select recover deleted items from the tools menu9. Select the messages that need to be recovered and click on the recover button.

What happens if you want to make this option available to all users in your organisation?

You can create an ADM template and deploy this registry change to all your workstations. To do this flow these steps:

1. Open regedt32.exe on your local machine.2. Navigate to"HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Exchange\Client\Options"3. Choose Edit - New - DWORD Value4. Name the value to "DumpsterAlwaysOn"5. Right click the value and choose Modify6. Set the Value Data to 1 and make sure the Base is Hexadecimal7. Click OK8. Highlight the value DumpsterAlwaysOn and choose File - Export9. Export this .reg file to a location e.g. c:\temp10. Name the file DumpsterAlwaysOn.reg

Next step is to install NUTS on your administrative workstation. NUTS stands for Network UTilities Set. It is full of awesome free very powerful tools for system engineers. Download it from http://yizhar.mvps.org/files/NUTS.EXE

Once NUTS is installed on your administrative workstation, create an adm file from the DumpsterAlwaysOn.reg file you exported previously by following these steps:

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